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Santo Domingo.- The Central Electoral Board (JCE) appealed the El Seibo province Civil Court’s ruling ordered him to issue the ID (cedula) cards to more than 100 Dominicans of Haitian descent.

 JCE spokesman Felix Reyna said the appeal was filed Friday afternoon.

 He said the JCE’s Legal Department is handling the case, and submitted it to a higher court.

On June 27 the El Seibo (east) Civil Chamber recently accepted to hear a class action suit filed by more than 100 Dominicans of Haitian descent, who accuse the JCE he violating their fundamental rights such as an identity, health and work.

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Written by: Atabey, 23 Jul 2012 9:39 AM
From: United States, NYC
All these people need to be processed and given a document that states their individual condition as children of illegal migrants into the country. There upon the Haitian government will be given the list and make available to these people their national ID papers. The more years pass by, the greater the numbers. So begin the process and pass it on to the next door neighbor.
Written by: hernandez5482, 23 Jul 2012 9:48 AM
From: United States, Vivir sin Patria, es lo mismo que vivir sin Honor.
This is how it starts, then the other 3 million will demand to be given documents even though none entered the country legally.. I'm afraid the international community has a goal and that is to use DR as the solution to the Haitian problem. I believe that us Dominicans have to demand the new goverment seek a better solution to this issue. I'm not blaming Haitian immigrants for this, i blame the Dominican authorities for allowing it. It is time the governmet do something other than steal taxpayers money.
Written by: BernardJeanPierre, 23 Jul 2012 10:14 AM
From: United States, Earth
The Dominican Government has the right to protect its own borders and establish its own laws, but it has been negligent in both. It has allowed the immigration issue to just balloon while the government and especially it's rich business partners have accumulated wealth while both Dominicans and Haitians have suffered consequences. Now in a lazy, and late effort it wants to try to take the easy way out and deny Dominicans of Haitian descent of their rights. Well this problem is going to bite the right in their butt. You get what you pay for.
Written by: ings0389, 23 Jul 2012 12:32 PM
From: United States
Well, Dominicans need to respect themselves and require visas of every country that requires visa from us. Second, Dominicans need to strengthen the border control. Do like in th U.S., build a freaking wall and out cameras. But I bet if we do that everyone's gonna be on our case. Do it anyways, it's our freaking country. Third, get all the illegal immigrants out and they can come back when they do the immigration process legally! The sons/ daughters of immigrants born in the Dominican Rep. are Dominicans. We need to be fair, and we can't deny them nationality. Those that were BORN in Dominican soil and have the legal papers to prove it, need to be granted nationality and need their identities. That doesn't mean that minors that were born here get to stay with their parents. The parents can process for legal papers, or the kids need to go back to Haiti with their parents, and once they're old enough to live on their own, they can come back.
Written by: Ricardolito, 23 Jul 2012 12:35 PM
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Last week I was in the offices of immigration and also the offices of external affairs in relation to the new laws on residncy cards that commenced on 1 june because it is not only Haitians who are having a problem . It seems that no one exactly knows the current policy orthe current way to issue even a temporary card
On the 16 August , there will be many senior offices that will lose their job and there will be many new Danilo appointments and at present there seems to be almost complete in activity and yet all I saw whileI was waiting was a long line of Haitians being granted visas ..
It may be of interest to Roy Stone that I am aquainted with the Dominican consul in Sydney ,,He is not listed on the Dominican government web site site nor has he any stamps or writing papers and his predecessor who is listed on the Dominican web sites died about 3 years ago. It may indicate the efficiency of the government
Written by: ings0389, 23 Jul 2012 12:52 PM
From: United States
Ricardolito,

RoyStone only speaks non-sense. He thinks he knows everything on every subject. Maybe if we ignore him, he'll stop making dumb comments
Written by: Adamo123, 23 Jul 2012 2:50 PM
From: United States
@Atabey :

You wrote
All these people need to be processed and given a document that states their individual condition as children of illegal migrants into the country. There upon the Haitian government will be given the list and make available to these people their national ID papers

Ans:
It seems that you are leaving somewhere outside DR....and I was just wondering if your kids did get the same kind of document from your local government and whether the list was also sent back to the dominican Republic.
Written by: Adamo123, 23 Jul 2012 3:00 PM
From: United States
@hernandez5482

Don't inflate the number's...it is not near that at all. Don't worry, even if the IC has a goal, they will not be able to fullfil it for DR cannot stand on its own yet, so to speak they cannot resolve other's misfortune. Afterwards, I am on board with you with the rest of your post and I totally agree with that approach, it sounds more humane too me according to the norms and policies.
Written by: Adamo123, 23 Jul 2012 3:13 PM
From: United States
@ings0389

Did you know how much it costs the US and China to build their wall fences? With that kind of money DR can do much better by using it efficiently in some other areas. Let's just leave that up to the DR elected parliament. They know better than us where to invest what left after claiming their piece of the pie.
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